Councilmember Corey Johnson at a Stated Meeting of the New York City Council. Image credit: William Alatriste/New York City Council
Privately-owned open space will be converted into a new City park that includes an aptly-placed Aids memorial across the street from the former-Saint Vincent’s Hospital. On August 13, 2015, the City Council approved West Village Residences, LLC and the Department of Parks and Recreation’s application to transfer ownership of WVR-owned open space to the City and officially map the space as City parkland. The open space is bounded by Seventh Avenue South, West 12th Street, and Greenwich Avenue, and its main feature will be New York’s largest AIDS memorial. The park officially opened on August 21st, and the AIDS memorial is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
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- Rudin Management’s proposed townhouses and residential tower along West 11th Street. Image: FXFOWLE Architects.
After more than a year and nine meetings, Landmarks approved final component of St. Vincent’s plan. On July 7, 2009, Landmarks approved Rudin Management’s amended plan for the redevelopment of the St. Vincent’s Hospital complex into a residential development. The complex is located between Sixth and Seventh Avenues and West 11th and 12th Streets in the Greenwich Village Historic District. St. Vincent’s plans to consolidate its hospital operations into one building located on the west side of Seventh Avenue on the site of the O’Toole Building, which was approved for demolition by Landmarks in October 2008.
Controversial aspects of Rudin’s plan included the massing of a proposed residential building along Seventh Avenue, proposed townhouses along West 11th Street, and alterations to historic buildings at the site. 6 CityLand 76 (June 15, 2009). The proposal had been fine-tuned several times at prior meetings, including reducing the Seventh Avenue building’s originally proposed height from 266 to 233 feet, and then later, to 218 feet. (read more…)
